Power Hungry Productions

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The sustsainable production initiative.

Power Hungry's Eco-Commitment

Power Hungry Film was established with a sustainable production initiative and is an offical recipient of the Environmental Media Associatons's 2009 Green Seal for our sustainable practices on comedy "Three-Fifty". Our name is, of course, a nod and a grin to the powerful egos in entertainment as well as an acknowledgement of how important it is that a high power usage industry like entertainment lead the way in ecologically responsible practices.

In 2006, our first film, award-winning comedy "Three-Fifty", was conceived as a 100% solar powered film project. I wish you could have seen the "Ok, she's crazy" look everyone gave me when I shared that news. Priceless. The realities of portable solar technology at the time made 100% solar an impossible goal within our budget and the constraints of a night shoot.

"Three-Fifty" was eventually produced with over 8 hours of pre-production time in solar powered building, and we deployed a solar charged marine battery sitting in a red Woody Wagon on set for powering cell phones, battery packs and a coffee urn. The batter weighed almost 200 lbs. What troopers, our production team! Our system was donated by ABC Solar. Those are our humble but proud first eco-accomplishments.

Our daily commitment to Sustainable Production Practices include:
- All equipment, lights, etc. are on power strips. Power strips are powered DOWN every night
and during lunch breaks and naps. ;-))

- Printers are "off" unless printing

- All paper, plastic, is recycled and/or re-used. Local filtered water is our choice and we use
no single use plastic water bottles.

- All paper purchased for office use is post consumer recycled paper

- Scripts coming in for review are accepted only by email and
are read "on-line" and are printed only when absolutely
necessary.

- Scripts for in-house use are printed either double sided or two pages to one side

- Power Hungry Productions uses the hybrid PRIUS for all
production business. Trips are organized with double and
triple purposes.

- We assist all production partners in implementing as many "best eco-practices" as
possible with ease and we make sure it's fun for everyone.